Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...break last year when a Chicago junkie caught selling dynamite led local cops to the apartment he had stolen it from. A search resulted in arrest warrants for Carlos Alberto Torres, 25, his wife Marie Haydee Beltran Torres, 22, and two others. All are the educated children of Puerto Rican immigrants. Carlos Torres, soon to be the newest addition to the FBI's Most Wanted list, attended the University of Illinois; his wife, a high school honors graduate, faces a murder charge: her fingerprint was found on an employment application left at the site of a 1976 bombing that...
...competitors from Bowdoin (10-1), Springfield (by default), Wellesley (double breadsticks), and Mt. Holyoke (2 and 5), she made her way into the consolation finals. Playing what Coach Felske described as "beautiful, calculated tennis" against Brown's number one singles player Mara Rogers, Meyer grabbed four straight games to break open the match and claim the title...
...unique school day that the Thomson Education Center provides these inner-city kids represents a clear break with the educational past of this historic island. One of the first areas settled in New England, Thomson's Island served as the site of a farm and trade school from the early 1800s until the 1950s. From 1955 to 1974, affluent kids attended Thomson Academy, a private boarding school on the island. Then during the summer of 1974, faced with financial difficulties and with the start of the busing program only a few months away, the academy's board of trustees decided...
...pressure lay squarely on the Dodgers. They waltzed their way through the season, playing less than .500 ball after the all-star break. They then made the Phillies look like soft vendors in a playoff series that lasted only four games. Meanwhile, 3000 milvs to the East, New York was staging a three-team Texas Death Match in the American League East that went to the next-to-last day of the season, only to go on to win its second consecutive toss-up series with Kansas City to earn the right to play the bullying Dodgers...
...really did not expect to break the record today," the ever-improving freshman Sullivan said. Kathy Whitcomb of Tufts, her only challenger, finished 26 seconds behind the winner's time...